Without Benefit of Galsworthy

"A self-centred, ridiculously vain Major... only follows the advice of people who agree with him, thinks himself so marvellously poetic, and on a whim decides to divorce his wife and lose everything for the hint of a female servant who in his imagination is his perfect match, but who has no interest in him whatsoever." (Ronnie Smart)

First published in The New Yorker, 11 March 1939.